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From: karl@MorningStar.Com (Karl Fox)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installation woes (Re: Passing on unwanted groups)
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.192210.1646@crappie.MorningStar.Com>
Date: 26 Aug 90 19:22:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: richard@pegasus.com's message of 26 Aug 90 08:56:36 GMT

Since cnews now remembers the answers to previous runs of build's
questions, it would be a relatively simple job to create a separate
shell script called something like "build-defaults" that examined the
system and created an initial set of default answers.  Looking in the
C library for strchr, symlink, etc.  and looking for chown and chgrp
are pretty simple, and they don't have to be 100% accurate, since they
are only *defaults*.  Plus, you wouldn't have to run it if you were
politically opposed to Configure.
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"I hear you guys deal with such dreck  |  Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies
as SNA and X.25."       -Ed Vielmetti  |  karl@MorningStar.Com